tornado
warning
the comfort
of gran’s rosary
Mona Bedi
incessant
rain i let the old dog in
Mona Bedi
distant
thunder —
how we have changed
over the years
Mona
Bedi
I
learn to live
with imperfections
windfall apples
Mona
Bedi
wandering
through her room
to hold near
once-treasured gifts
she
left behind
C. Jean Downer
a childhood
in the peripheral
I convince myself
I will always
have
enough
C. Jean Downer
ocean
breeze...
together we walk
the life-long jetty
Susan Lee Roberts
onion—
layers
of
unexpressed sweetness
Susan Lee Roberts
football field—
a sparrow holds
the
goal post
Neena Singh
insomnia
stray dogs bark
all
night
Neena Singh
margosa shade
the corn seller
fans
her coal
Neena Singh
red chrysanthemum —
the
color of a memory
Elena Zouain
silence of the forest —
the deer’s bellow
reaches
the moon
Elena Zouain
forced perspective
finding pockets
in
the shallows
Jerome Berglund
thumb, forefinger
disentangling
the
leaves
Jerome Berglund
beneath
the clouded surface
glimpses
of movement
Jerome Berglund
the number of
planes buzzing overhead
now outnumbers
the clouds, the birds
even
the stars
Jennifer Gurney
days shortening
little by little
leaning
into fall
Jennifer
Gurney
lost glove
he warms her hand
in
both of his
Barrie Levine
phantom ring
on her left hand
stages
of grief
Barrie Levine
roundabout
we get through it
Susan Burch
peacock brooch
when did I stop
feeling
pretty
Susan Burch